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 # ngen
-Build file generator (engine) for the [`ninja` build
+Build file generator (engine) for the [Ninja build
 system](https://ninja-build.org/).
 
 Licensed under the GPLv3.
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ Ninja is a small, modern build system that uses a bare-bones configuration
 language that is easy to both read and generate (but not necessarily easy to
 write by hand). "Where other build systems are high-level languages Ninja aims
 to be an assembler," according to Ninja's website. It can be thought of as a
-simpler, faster replacement for the classic `make`, . It is used by default by
+simpler, faster replacement for the classic `make`. It is used by default by
 Meson; CMake can also be configured to use ninja as a backend.